Eating Cities: When Food Creates Places – Mediamatic & De Kaskantine
Food, cities, and futures are transformed when groups of people come together to address urban issues and shift norms...
Who Makes the City?
A Community Benefits Agreement Grows in Brooklyn
Given today’s economic environment we see governments relying on private actors to demonstrate their competitiveness at the city, state and...
Homelessness & NYC’s Public Libraries
In 2014 homelessness in New York City hit a record high. Over the past 30 years this issue has been...
Alternative Food Networks in Cities
Over the last couple of decades, urban areas are increasingly characterized by new forms of food production and consumption. The...
Revitalization For Whom? Exploring Vancouver’s Chinatown
Karin de Nijs investigated the involvement and experiences of business owners and other local stakeholders in the revitalization of Vancouver’s...
Defending Local Culture on London’s Southbank
You Can’t Move History, But You Sure Can Make It Katherine VanHoose investigated examples of ‘do-it-yourself’ urbanism (DIY) in London...
Bottling Local Identity: the Emergence of the Craft Beer Sector and Local Embeddedness
Throughout the 20th century, processes of globalization and increasing economies of scale have eroded the relationship between place and product,...
Implementing Climate Change Goals
In this piece, Maarten shows us how Boston and Amsterdam are becoming prototypes for urban solutions to climate change. And...
Rethinking Urban Transport Planning and Social Exclusion
In this article Pablo Moran shows us what the capabilities approach of Amartya Sen can mean for research into social...
Specialty Coffee Bars: Are They to Stay or to Go?
Whether you have ever actively thought about how coffee bars influence your own need for them and how they make...
